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Battle of the Greens​
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Green is at the heart of the English Landscape but it can be the artist’s undoing!
There is so much more to The Battle than just “Blue and Yellow don’t make Green”.
We’ll experiment with many blues and yellows like Payne’s Gray and Naples Yellow or Lemon Yellow with a touch of black and create a whole palette of delicious greens.
Our new-found palette will then be great to produce a landscape from one of your photos or one from Lin’s archive of landscape scenes.

Lin will explain the process of painting a canvas with a warm or a cool underpainting and how this affects the outcome. It is a friendly group and everyone should be able to take some wonderful swatches and a complete or almost complete canvas (about 10” x 14”) home.

Skills/Techniques Covered
  • Choosing materials to start oil painting
  • How to apply oils to the canvas
  • Mixing as many greens as possible with a palette knife
  • How to start a painting using a tonal beginning
  • Making greens sparkle in sunlight or suggest mystery in shadows

Level
Complete beginner Yes
Beginner                Yes
Improver                Yes
Intermediate          Yes
Advanced               No
Highly specialised   No

Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £10 payable to the tutor during the course. 

​The tutor may not have the facilities to take card payments for materials so please remember to bring cash or your cheque book 

Please Bring With You​
  • Apron
  • Baking tray to take wet work home
  • Kitchen roll
  • Plastic bag to tape to your desk for rubbish
  • Optional - photo of a landscape to work from.

We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
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Oxfordshire
OX12 8PN
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